An Amendment to Cut Political Cash

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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date September 10, 2014
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/opinion/an-amendment-to-cut-political-cash.html
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Quotes-start.png Republicans, fearful of deflating their cushion of cash, are trying to portray the amendment as an assault on the Bill of Rights. But writing unlimited checks on behalf of politicians was never part of the American birthright. This measure defines protected “speech” as it had been understood in the First Amendment for 185 years until the Buckley decision: actual words uttered or written by natural persons, not money spent, and certainly not from corporate treasuries. Quotes-end.png


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